@techreport{NBERw8986,
title = "The Relationship Between Education and Adult Mortality in the United States",
author = "Adriana Lleras-Muney",
institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research",
type = "Working Paper",
series = "Working Paper Series",
number = "8986",
year = "2002",
month = "June",
doi = {10.3386/w8986},
URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w8986",
abstract = {Prior research has uncovered a large and positive correlation between education and health. This paper examines whether education has a causal impact on health. I follow synthetic cohorts using successive U.S. censuses to estimate the impact of educational attainment on mortality rates. I use compulsory education laws from 1915 to 1939 as instruments for education. The results suggest that education has a causal impact on mortality, and that this effect is perhaps larger than has been previously estimated in the literature.},
}